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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.»
«There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.»
«Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.»
«Pride ruined the angels.»
«Solitude is the safeguard of mediocrity. . . to genius the stern friend.»
«Striving is perhaps the one and only true elixir, for while we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.»
«Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.»
«Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.»
«Wherever work is done, victory is attained.»
«The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human'.»